On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 9:23 AM, Erika L. Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> For some reason the Underground sounds so familiar ...
Probably a pretty common name.
None of my BBSes lived long enough to make the historical lists like this:
http://bbslist.textfiles.com/313/oldschool.html
Oh I
I wish I could remember the names of the BBS's I hung out in. I probably
talked to a bunch of you and didn't even realize it.
For some reason the Underground sounds so familiar ...
> :: -Original Message-
> :: From: G Money
> ::
> :: My favorite BBS's were Fat Freddy's, which was out on
My favorite BBS's were Fat Freddy's, which was out on the west coast
somewhere, Kill Devil Hills, which was out east in North Carolina I
thinkand a local BBS called The Underground run by a guy I sort of knew.
I loved playing Global Wars, which was basically just glorified Risk.
On Thu, May
Damn thats bringing back some damn memories.
Jerry Johnson wrote:
> Was your modem the standard 300 baud acoustic coupler? I had a friend who
> could whistle the connect string into those.
>
> There were a lot of local boards, but my 2 national favorites were the Well
> from SF, and Pirates Cove
On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Jerry Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> There were a lot of local boards, but my 2 national favorites were the
> Well
> from SF,
If you liked The Well, try telnetting to m-net.arbornet.org and log in as
"newuser" =)
The Well was much more commercially succes
I've got so much to add to this whole "how I got started" and BBS memories
and programming in basic ... but I'm too tired to type up the book.
Just stick this hybrid, geeky girl in there with the bunch of ya that
already wrote about the above.
Course I took a 10 year break
Was your modem the standard 300 baud acoustic coupler? I had a friend who
could whistle the connect string into those.
There were a lot of local boards, but my 2 national favorites were the Well
from SF, and Pirates Cove (from somewhere up north, either maine, nh, or
canada. And later a SF-based A
Okay the BBS talk got me going.
I loved BBSing and to be honest, what is cf-community but a email based bbs
without door games? =)
I got my first 300 baud modem in 1985 from my Uncle, a VIC Modem that I
hooked up to my Commodore 64. I lived in Saline, a small town just south of
Ann Arbor. The o